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Amos 8:10

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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.

And I will turn {H2015} your feasts {H2282} into mourning {H60}, and all your songs {H7892} into lamentation {H7015}; and I will bring up {H5927} sackcloth {H8242} upon all loins {H4975}, and baldness {H7144} upon every head {H7218}; and I will make {H7760} it as the mourning {H60} of an only {H3173} son, and the end {H319} thereof as a bitter {H4751} day {H3117}.

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into wailing; I will make you all put sackcloth around your waists and shave your heads bald in grief. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 6:26 (7 votes)

    O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Zechariah 12:10 (6 votes)

    And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.

  • Job 20:23 (4 votes)

    ¶ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

  • Jeremiah 48:37 (4 votes)

    For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

  • Ezekiel 7:18 (4 votes)

    They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Luke 7:12 (3 votes)

    Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

  • Luke 7:13 (3 votes)

    And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.